Remembering Rukmini Devi Arundale, whose contested reforms shaped modern-day Bharatanatyam
- VR Devika
On Rukmini Devi Arundale's 117th birth anniversary, it is perhaps time to re-evaluate the scathing remarks relentlessly brought against her and her contributions to the world of Indian classical dance, Bharatanatyam in particular.

Varnam in the Durbar of Rajasree Serfoji: "Nee Saati Dora"
- Jeetendra Hirschfeld
I was fortunate to learn quite a few Tanjore Quartet masterpieces, and one such varnam is "Nee Saati Dora", composed by Tanjore Ponnayya.

How classical is Indian classical dance?
- Jennifer Homans
Performers like Bijayini Satpathy, a star of the Odissi style, are interrogating the nationalist and colonial legacies embedded in India's dance traditions.

Grace in Abhinaya
- Lakshmi Viswanathan
Abhinaya serves as my means of communicating through the vocabulary of dance.

Art meets engineering in College of Engineering STEAM project
A noted Indian dancer traveled to University of Iowa in fall of 2023 to help an engineering professor train and test artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to recognize and classify changing features through Bharatanatyam.

Indians urge West Australian Ballet to drop insensitive ballet "La Bayadère"
- India Post Newspaper
Indians across America have urged the West Australian Ballet (WAB) to withdraw “La Bayadère” ballet, scheduled for April 12-20, 2024 in His Majesty’s Theatre (HMT) in Perth, which they feel seriously trivializes Eastern religious and other traditions.